#1152 Do Dads

We often hear of the vast advances of medical technology. The ability to do all kinds of things we’ve never seen before. Microsurgeries through tiny scopes they slip into various parts of your body, drugs that promote softness of one thing or firmness of another. And the big advance of the late 20th century, fertility.
A little ironic that when the world is suffering from the effects of overpopulation we make tremendous advances in fertility, but, you know, it’s science. They gave us the H-Bomb after all.
Not that I’m not thankful for all the good things science has given us. I’m just saying sometimes the family of science has a rotten sniveling kid or two that you’d rather not have sit at the adult table at Thanksgiving.
In any event, one of the fertility subjects we’ve heard so much about lately is Octomom—The person who supposedly wanted to either be like Angelina Jolie, or get a book deal, or maybe get the golden ring of today’s golden dreamers, a TV reality show.
As Octomom already had six kids, unforeseen public relations problems arose. The Spanish word for 14 is catorce and let’s face it, Catorce Mom sounds like some sort of contortionist. So her TV dreams withered and died along with the public’s initial outpouring of concern.
Still, it was triumph of science that fertility drugs and technology could help install eight healthy embryos and bring them to term.
Then again, nature has a few tricks up her sleeve too. Like the news story recently about the Texas woman who gave birth to non-identical twins. Not that special, until DNA tests proved they were so non-identical they came from different fathers.
That’s two dads did dat wild ting wit one mom mon.
Scientists call it heteropaternal superfecundation. Even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious.
Cool, “Duo-Dads” sounds so much more interesting than “Octomom.” And hey, one mom, two dads and rival twins, this is a reality show that would really have possibilities.
Instead of “Two Men and a Baby” they could call it “Two Men and Two Babies and, oh yeah, the embarrassed mom.”
America, ya gotta love it.